Last Saturday, I was one of seven million protestors filling the streets of American cities and towns. Speaker of the House, ...

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The originalist fallacy that dominates the current Supreme Court—the pretense that it is possible to read the minds of the ...

Jonathan Schlefer is a former senior researcher in political economy at Harvard Business School. He also served as editor-in-chief of MIT Technology Review and is the author of two books, Palace ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

Gouverneur Morris wrote the preamble to the Constitution and shaped the future of the nascent United States. Later in life, he rejected the foundational document as a failure Zachary Clary - Historian ...

During the 2016 presidential election campaign, candidate Donald Trump took the unprecedented move of releasing a list of his potential Supreme Court nominees. But Trump didn’t assemble this list ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Restaurateur Steve Salis had ...

While attending a wedding in March, M. K. Stalin, the chief minister of India’s fastest-growing state, Tamil Nadu, made a peculiar request: “Earlier we used to say, take your time and have a baby. But ...

In his 1836 eulogy of James Madison, John Quincy Adams called the late president the “Father of the Constitution.” It was not the first time Madison was called that; Jared Ingersoll toasted the former ...

An 1880 Harper's Weekly illustration titled Women at the Polls in New Jersey in the Good Old Times Historica Graphica Collection / Heritage Images / Getty Images The first New Jersey State ...

President Donald Trump said the Federalist Society gave him “bad advice” on judicial nominations. He’s still appointing their members to the federal bench anyway. In a sign of the continued alignment ...